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BETHLEHEM Three vehicles were broken into early Sunday in the 200 block of Mechanic Street in Bethlehem. A police officer patrolling the South Side neighborhood discovered the crimes when he noticed a car's hazard lights were flashing. Looking closer, he found the windows smashed on the car and on two sport utility vehicles, according to police. A car stereo, 100 compact discs and $50 were missing from the car, owned by Laura Matos of Center Valley, police said. A car stereo, $115 and a credit card were taken from a sport utility vehicle belonging to Aracelis Velazquez of Bethlehem, police said.

WAYNE TOWNSHIP Schuylkill County An 81-year-old woman was uninjured Friday when her sport utility vehicle was rear-ended in Wayne Township by a car driven by a 91-year-old woman, who also was uninjured, state police at Schuylkill Haven said. Norma Green of Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, was stopped at a yield sign at the ramp on Route 183 at Route 443 in Wayne Township at 1:20 p.m. when her vehicle was hit from behind by a car driven by Grace Fegley, also of Pine Grove, police said.

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY Two people killed in separate accidents Tuesday died from internal injuries caused by blunt force trauma, the Northampton County coroner's office said Wednesday. Coroner Zachary Lysek determined the cause of death for Peter Hardin, 44, of E. Madison Street, Easton, and Bessie Rupp, 72, of the 1900 block of Ferry Street, Wilson, after autopsies. Hardin, who was taking a test drive on a motorcycle, died after crashing at high speed into the side of a sport utility vehicle that turned in front of him on Freemansburg Avenue in Wilson about 6 p.m. Tuesday, borough police reported.

ALLENTOWN State police at Bethlehem are searching for three people involved in a car crash Friday afternoon on a Route 22 exit. Chad Hayes, 20, of Bethlehem was on the eastbound Fullerton Avenue exit ramp when his vehicle rear-ended a sport utility vehicle about 2:30 p.m., police said. The second vehicle left the scene, police said. It was described as a pearl-colored Cadillac Escalade with Virginia plates. The driver was a man about 5-feet, 9-inches tall, in his 30s with brown hair, police said.

Charged -- Mohamed Fofana, 29, of Oakland, Calif.; Friday with drunken driving and a noise disturbance violation; allegedly blared stereo at 2:59 a.m. in his sport utility vehicle while driving drunk in the unit block of N. Third Street; sent to Northampton County Prison under $25,000 bail by District Judge Gay Elwell.

EASTON Easton police are investigating the cause of a one-vehicle accident that sent a woman to the hospital Tuesday morning. Police said Beth Eike was driving in the 1300 block of Bushkill Street around 8:30 a.m. when her sport utility vehicle flipped. Eike was trapped inside and taken out of the SUV by an ambulance crew that responded to the crash. Police had no address or age for Eike. She was taken to Easton Hospital, but the extent of her injuries was unknown Tuesday night.

Whitehall Township firefighter Michael VonSteuben douses a sport utility vehicle at the Allentown Auto Auction. Firefighters were called to the auction site, 3880 Lehigh St., Whitehall, around 9:30 a.m. Monday. The fire was put out within five minutes. Fire officials said faulty wiring sparked the blaze.

By Pervaiz Shallwani and Kathleen Parrish Of The Morning Call | January 24, 2005

Jim Hampson spent much of the week nervously keeping tabs on the weather, gabbing with game-mate Bob Brown on how they would get to Philadelphia for Sunday's NFC Championship. When Saturday's storm dumped nearly a foot of snow in the region, the diehards from Chalfont decided to take the train from Doylestown instead of testing the snow-packed roads. To make sure they made it to the station on time, they each rose just after dawn to shovel their driveways. "We were getting down there one way or another," said Hampson.

Lansford police Sgt. John Turcmanovich has installed flashing red lights on the dash of his brand-new pickup truck. That's because Turcmanovich and the department's chief, James Strauss, have been using their own vehicles on the job for several weeks. "We're not happy about using our own vehicles," Turcmanovich said. "We worry about damage to our vehicles and liability. "And why should we have to?" he said. "They are supposed to supply the vehicles." Until last weekend, when one frequently out-of-commission cruiser was repaired, the borough was down to only one patrol car -- and it can't be used to carry suspects because it has been modified with a cage in the back seat to carry the borough's police dog. The borough's third cruiser has stopped running, Turcmanovich said.

HAMBURG An 8-year-old boy who was hit by a sport utility vehicle Thursday night in Hamburg is hospitalized in stable condition, police reported. Erik Sorensen was flown to Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township, said Police Chief Michael Painter. He is being treated for broken ribs and related injuries. Around 8:15 p.m. Sorensen darted into the street near the intersection of Fourth Street and Port Clinton Road, Painter said, where he was hit by an SUV driven by Michael L. McCauley, 48, of Windsor Castle Road, Hamburg.